Here is first a list of plant species that I formally identified during the blitz week (there are a few that I didn’t, for I lack time, a good field guide, and a better knowledge of the focal plant). Definitely no trees in the list: too big, no leaves yet (or too young leaves), and I cannot identify them based only on trunk characteristics. Well, it was hard work for me, because many of these species are new to me, except for the European invasive (or conversely, the American species invading Europe). But here it is! (Four small or bigger blitzes so far: the 21st & 22sd of April were in Pittsburgh (the first day in my garden, the second day at Frick Park), and the 24th & 26th of April were near Linesville (PA, at the border with Ohio).

Hi folks, it’s spring and plants will begin flowering. I have to go to the field for the next two months. I don’t know as to how it will modify this blog’s life yet, but I surely will enjoy a more wilder life and may even have done nice experiments when I’ll come back in June!

Here’s one of the species I have not identified yet, that I’ve met last sunday during my second BioBlitz… If anybody can help with identification of this snake (below), it would helpme fill my Blitz datasheet… :-)

I signed to Blogger BioBlitz 2007, a blogging naturalist event occuring… now, err this week (from 21-st to 25-th of April). The principle is quite simple: proving systematics is a lot of fun (i.e. naturalizing, botanizing, insecting err bugging, dissecting, flowering, birding, fishing, walking, rooting, making a lot of nice pictures, etc).Furthermore, to the limits of amateur (at least am I) expertise in taxonomy, we may reach an incredible observation of the global biodiversity (at least 0,0000001% of life on earth). Just kidding… I hope we see a lot of living things altogether, documenting species diversity to the best of our ability.

To learn more about official goals and quick history of the event, and to keep in touch with other blogs taking part in this naturalist party, you can read more here, here and starts officially here (and is grossly federated by the Voltage Gate, or at least said I, because I have actually not enough time to go through the whole thing in detail).